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===Non-US statements===
The [https://www.knmg.nl Royal Dutch Medical Association ] {KNMG) published a statement regarding the non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors in 2010. The Netherlands is a nation where [[human rights]] are respected,<ref name="smith1998">{{REFweb
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/smith/
|title=Male Circumcision and the Rights of the Child
|quote=
}}
The [https://www.racp.edu.au Royal Australasian College of Physicians] (2010) released a 28-page updated position statement on non-therapeutic circumcision of boys in September 2010. This statement is deeply flawed and outmoded in 2020. The statement accepts at face value the false, now disproved,<ref name="boyle-hill2011">{{REFjournal
|last=Boyle
|first=Gregory J.
|author-link=
|last2=Hill
|first2=George
|author2-link=George Hill
|title=Sub-Saharan African randomised clinical trials into male circumcision and HIV transmission: Methodological, ethical and legal concerns
|journal=J Law Med
|date=2011-12
|volume=19
|issue=2
|pages=316-334
|url=http://www.salem-news.com/fms/pdf/2011-12_JLM-Boyle-Hill.pdf
|quote=
|pubmedID=22320006
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|accessdate=2020-07-31
}}</ref> claims that circumcision reduces the risk of HIV by 60 percent. The statement shows only limited understanding of the functions of the foreskin. While it recognizes the protective function, it does not recognize the immunological function or sexual function, and shows only limited understanding of the erogenous function. The RACP places parental preference above child human rights. Nevertheless, public hospitals in [[Australia]] have discontinued provision of non-therapeutic circumcisions and it is reported that only 4 percent of Australian boys currently are being circumcised. The RACP needs to update this backward-looking, outmoded statement.
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|url=https://www.racp.edu.au//docs/default-source/advocacy-library/circumcision-of-infant-males.pdf?sfvrsn=eaa32f1a_10
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|title=Circumcision of infant males
|trans-title=
|language=English
|last=
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|publisher=Royal Australasian College of Physicians
|website=
|date=2010-09
|accessdate=2020-07-31
|format=PDF
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The [https://www.bma.org.uk/ British Medical Association] 28-page statement (2019) focuses on legal and ethical advice to its fellows to help keep them out of trouble in a regulatory environment that is unfriendly to practitioners of non-therapeutic male circumcision. It has little to say about the medical aspects of non-therapeutic circumcision.